How to Make an Impact as a Developer Advocate - 🧑‍💻🥑📆 209

Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly

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📖 How to make an impact as a developer advocate

Rizèl Scarlett shared her experience for catalyzing change and leaving an indelible mark on the tech landscape as a developer advocate.

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📖 The Developer Relations Capability Maturity Model

Jordan Violet shared a model he's been using for the past two years to gauge the Developer Relations program's maturity within a business.

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📖 The confluence of UX and DX for API Design

Xavier Spriet talked about including the core user experience activities within the context of developer experience for API design.

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📖 How to Lose Your Writing Voice and How to Get it Back

Stephan Miller talked about writing 850 articles in the past 4 years and losing his writing voice in the process.

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📖 Lessons Learned In 2 Years of Blogging

Maddy Onyehara shared about her blogging journey and the lessons she learned in the past 2 years while turning her blog into a bit of side hustle she treats like a business.

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📖 6 Years and 180 (Virtual) Events Later...

Brian Rinaldi shared his journey of organizing 180 virtual events in the past 6 years and going from being a virtual event skeptic to being a virtual event veteran.

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📖 Women Developer Academy has launched!

Monika Janota announced Google is launching the WDA English Edition in October and is looking for applications for their mentoring program.

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📚 CFPs 📚

🐻‍❄️ Jfokus
CFP: https://sessionize.com/jfokus-2024
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: February 5-7, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://www.jfokus.se/articles/code-of-conduct

🐼 PyCon Indonesia
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/pyconid2023
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Location: Bandung, Indonesia
Date: November 18-19, 2023
Code of Conduct: https://pycon.id/coc

🐻 Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas
CFP: https://sessionize.com/vslive-las-vegas-2024
Deadline: September 11, 2023
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Date: March 3-8, 2024
Code of Conduct: https://vslive.com/pages/harassment.aspx

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